The blaring horns and the sound of countless footsteps and rotation of siege engines signaled the start of a full-scale assault.
The sergeant in the back of the siege camp shouted to the soldiers: "—Release!!"
The ropes of a row of massive catapults were unleashed, and the heavy counterweights descended from the frame under gravity.
The gigantic levers hurled countless blazing fire bombs toward the high walls hundreds of meters away. The flames and smoke drew trajectories in the air, crashing with precise accuracy, calculated by army engineers, upon the inner and outer bastions of the city.
Countless splatterings of grease unleashed a torrent of blazes between the battlements and towers, the spreading fire forcing the already exhausted defenders to scatter and flee.
